Supporting and Developing ICT as a

Teaching and Learning Resource

Day Four

Tutor: Emma HallinanAssistant Tutor: Shakira Kelly

09.30: Roll, Layout of the Day

09.45: Finding Educational resources online.

Creating Literary Resources e.g. Wordsearch, cloze, crossword

11.30: Break

12.00: Britannica –Webinar (35 minutes) & World Book Video (5 minutes)

12.45:Powerpoint – Storytelling in Powerpoint

14.00: Finish – Merry Monk

Layout of Day Four

WIKI

http://culleenssummercourse2010.pbwo

rks.com/

Workspace

•Scoilnet Resource Bank www.scoilnet.ie

•Image Bank – www.imagebank.ie

•Publishing stories on Scoilnet Story Time -

www.scoilnet.ie/StudentsPrimary.aspx

Fís Bookclub - http://www.fisbookclub.ie/

•Scispy – www.scispy.ie

•Encyclopaedia Britannica

www.scoilnet.ie/britannica.shtm

•World Book through Scoilnet

www.scoilnet.ie/worldbookonline.shtm

The Internet

Explore ScoilnetScoilnetwww.scoilnet.ie – resource finder

www.scoilnet.ie Explore Scoilnet

•Scoilnet Storytime http://www.scoilnet.ie/StudentsPrimary.aspx

Scoilnet – Publishing stories

•Normally takes 2 working days before story is approved. •Minor edits are made to stories•Contact us will remove a story.

www.scoilnet.ie

World Book Kids Online

http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/html/webinars_kids.htm

www.fis.ie Fís Bookclubhttp://www.fisbookclub.com/teachers

•www.iamanartist.ie Excellent Irish Art website with videos, responding to art imagesand lesson plans.

•www.scispy.ie Excellent science website based on the Irish curriculum. Great lesson plans and include videos on topics.

Fís Bookclub

•Teacher’s Pet - http://www.teachers-pet.org/

•Wordsearch – Teachers Direct Wordsearch Creation

Utility

www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/wordsearches/words

earch-maker.aspx

•Cloze Procedure – Oxford New English Cloze Maker

•Crosswords using Eclipse Crosswords

•www.starfall.com

•www.ictgames.com/index.htm

•www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

Creating Literary

Resource

•Teacher’s Pet - http://www.teachers-pet.org/

•Once installed a toolbar will appear in Microsoft Word.

•In Microsoft 2003 – Teacher’s Pet is a very visible toolbar

•In Microsoft 2007 it appears in the “add in” tab on the

top.

•Many of the tools in teacher’s pet are free some need to

be paid for if you wish to use them.

Teacher’s Pet

•Highlight the text you want jumbled – Each sentence

separately.

•Click on teacher’s pet and it will jumble them.

Teacher’s Pet – Jumble Text

Teacher’s Pet – Bingo Cards•Put words in a vertical column (not in boxes).

•Highlight the list and click teacher’s pet and Bingo Card Maker.

•You will be asked how many bingo cards, columns, rows etc.

•After this your cards will be created and ready for printing.

•Have some sentence for the worksheet (put a + sign

where you want the break to occur.

•Highlight the sentences (altogether) and click on “Pair

Matching Puzzle” in the Teacher’s pet toolbar.

e.g

My name is +Emma

I live in +Ballina

I have +two sisters

I have +one dog

Teacher’s Pet – Create a match-up

worksheet

To create a crossword you need to have an answer

followed by a clue.

madra+dog

asal+donkey

capall+horse

cat+cat

coinín+rabbit

bó+cow

caora+sheep

Teacher’s Pet – Create a Crossword

www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/wordsearches/wordsearch-maker.as

px

•Free to use

•Create IWB versions

•Differentiation

•Supports modern foreign languages

•Hundred’s of ready made resources

•Can be tailored for your curriculum needs

•As well as ordinary wordsearches you can make wordsearchers with a

cloze passage or definitions.

•Children must find the missing words from the passage in the

wordsearch.

•Can be saved as a “pdf” for use again.

•You can also make an interactive wordsearch for the IWB

Wordsearch – Teachers Direct Wordsearch Creation

Utility

Manual page 130

Wordsearch – Teachers Direct Wordsearch Creation Utility with Cloze

Maker

Example:Wordsearch with

cloze

www.oup.com/elt/global/products/ef_teachertools

•Free to use

•Differentiation

•Need Flash player

•Can be tailored for your curriculum needs

•Activities can be printed out or copied to word

for more editing.

Making Cloze Activities – Oxford New English Cloze

Maker

Manual page 133

www.eclipsecrossword.com/download.html

•Fun way of reinforcing spelling and the meaning of words/comprehension

•Free to use

•Differentiation – you control the level of difficulty depending on clue.

•Can be tailored for your curriculum needs

•When you log onto website you are asked do you want to download it.

•You can print your crossword, save it, or save as a web page (This will

allow you to publish the crossword as an Interactive web page)

Crosswords using Eclipse Crosswords

Manual page 135

www.starfall.com

www.ictgames.com/index.htm

•This site provides educational ICT activites linked to the English National Curriculum. . •These games are generally targeted at infant school teachers and parents of infant age children.

Crickweb - http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

•194 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools.•30 free to use fun games for kids aged 4 - 11.•120 plus links to free interactive, image and software resources.•16 'Flipcharts' to download and use on your Promethean IWB.

www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

www.scoilnet.ie

Britannica Online

www.britannica.co.uk/education - Video (5 min)

http://www.ncte.ie/tutors/webinars/

Sourcing Images and Audio•www.imagebank.ie

•http://commons.wikimedia.org

www.musopen.com

•Free loop music: www.flashkit.com/loops (sound loops)

Storytelling/Slideshow using powerpoint

Manual page 202

Ideas for powerpoint